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yeah i figured the first was a kit extract, its not gonna be the best thing ever no matter how you look at it, but now i really can RDWAHAB. the next batch will probly get at least 2 weeks in the fermenter

hey it stopped most of the bubling after 2 and the next 4 days the sg didnt dropped less than 1, i may get bottle bombs, but hey that makes for a funny story, plus ive got my 2 cases stored in garbage bags just in case. hate to say it but this may be gone before it even gets a full 2 weeks in...

i just bottled my first batch 2 days ago, and its already settled significantly, ive got almost a solid layer of crud on the bottom of my bottles, im sure your beer with clarify alot in bottle, cheers on your new brew :)

hi again all. well about 10 days ago i brewed my first beer, an american wheat, and i cant say i didnt rush everything, i bottled it after 6 days, and i just opened my first bottle 2 days after bottling, and yknow what? ITS AWSOME!! even being as green as it is I have to say its better than...

heres my first recipe, im brewing tommarow. i need to know, how long and what temp. should i steep at? Amber Cream ale 1.5 Lbs grits 3.25 lbs Amber LME 3 lbs pilsner malt 1 oz palisade hops (7.4 alpha 8.4 beta value) going to try to reuse my last ale yeast after a wash how long...

jsut the kind of answer i was looking for,its pilsner malt

how do i tell all i have is a plastic bag with "pilsner" written in sharpy...

i was just doing some research on malt before brewing my second batch, and i came across a source that said that carapils malt needs another malt to break down the starches. i just bought 3 lbs of grain label simply "pilsner" from the LHBS and im worried, am i going to have to go get another...

i started in 1992 at the tender age of 11 :) helped my dad with everthing but the drinking, now i get to do that myself ;) amazing what you remember by smell, alone, i smelled my first brew in the pot and it brought back so much about how to do the actual work. i was lost untill i smelled the...

i cant RDWHAHB i have no HOME BREW!!! this is my first batch, once its done i will RDWAHAHB

thank god it wasnt a mercury thermometer

was the honey part of the kit? different hives make honey with different sugar levels

i live a ways away from my lhbs and im wondering, what ingredients can i get from my grocery store that i can use in brewing, aka will rolled oats work? regular rice, how about grains? most importantly a list of the different sugars, is corn syrup the same as corn sugar? and what about cane sugar?

just an update, gots me a new hydrometer, and i managed to get a whole new batch of ingredients, and some yeast to do a cider ;) :) my beer went into bottles after a week, i know that im gonna get crap for it, but it tasted great even flat and warm, so im not worried about my results. im...

luckily my favorite place for draft microbrews happens to also be my LHBS, Ithaca Beer company, out of ithaca ny, they have some great award winning beers, ranging from one of THE hoppiest IPA's out there all the way to a smoked porter, I keep telling them they need to make a stout, but they...

i seem to recall that dandelion greens are quite bitter, maybee ill try that.

anyone know how black pepper would ferment out in a beer? i know grains of paradise are commonly used in some recipes, and they are related to black pepper, anyone tried peppercorns in thier beer, howd it turn out?

just my two cents, but if ur gonna buy hops by the pound invest in a vacuum sealer, you could lose alot of flavor and aroma if you dont get the 02 away from the hops

ummmmm, i dont think i wanna use gruit, heres what wikipedia has to say Gruit was a combination of herbs, some of the most common being mildly to moderately narcotic: sweet gale (Myrica gale), mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), heather (Calluna vulgaris) and Labrador...

thanks guys didnt look there.